Tag: Nigeria

Nigeria. Nigeria Gunmen Kidnap 73 Students From High School in Northwest (The Defense Post)

Nigerian gunmen on Wednesday kidnapped 73 students after storming a high school in the northwest of the country in the latest in a series...

Nigeria. 17 People Killed in Nigeria Jihadist Attacks (Defense Post)

Nigerian soldiers patrol on October 12, 2019, after gunmen suspected of belonging to the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) group carried out a...

Nigeria. Nigerian air force Super Tucanos ready to fight against ISIS, with US Air Force training (Todd South, Defense News)

The Nigerian air force held an induction ceremony for pilots and maintainers of the A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft. Training for these airmen...

Nigeria. Nigeria’s Buhari Urges Unity After Massacres in Flashpoint City (The Defense Post)

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. Photo: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has called for communities to unite to ease tensions after violence in a flashpoint central city killed dozens of people. Jos, in Plateau State,...

Nigeria/Russia. Nigeria To Buy Military Hardware From Russia (Lisa Vives, IDN)

Fighter jets, ammunition and other military hardware are among the top featured items in a new “landmark development in bilateral relations” between Moscow and...

Nigeria – Nigeria’s Twitter ban is a misplaced priority (Brookings)

Source: Authors, using data from Twitter Mary Blankenship and Christina Golubski In early June 2021, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari announced the indefinite suspension of Twitter after the platform...

Nigeria – Education in emergency in Nigeria: Creating gender equitable policies so all girls have an uninterrupted right to learn (Brookings)

Edem Dorothy Ossai writes: Even under what some may describe as normal conditions, girls in Nigeria face a distinctive set of barriers to formal...

(Nigeria) 100 kidnapped villagers freed after 42-day captivity (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Police in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Zamfara have said they secured the release of 100 villagers kidnapped in early June following...

Nigeria – No End in Sight for Insecurity and Banditry in Northwestern Nigeria (Idris Mohammed, The Jamestown Foundation)

For half a decade, northwestern Nigeria has been facing serious insecurity, ranging from armed group violence to kidnappings and banditry, which has affected most...

Nigeria – Once Africa’s promise, Nigeria is heaving under crime, few jobs (Alonso Soto, Al Jazeera)

If there was ever a time Nigeria could have taken off, it was in 1999. Democracy had been restored, with its economy reopening after...

Nigeria – How Nigeria’s Twitter ban stands to impact people, businesses (Festus Iyorah, Al Jazeera)

The Twitter suspension came two days after the social media giant deleted a tweet from President Buhari’s account for violating its rules How Nigeria’s...

Nigeria – ISWAP Launches Hearts and Minds Strategy to Counter Nigerian Army Offensive (Jacob Zenn, The Jamestown Foundation)

Since Boko Haram’s launched its jihad in 2009, the group has undergone three major phases of territory-capturing military offensives. The Nigerian army turned the...

Nigeria – Dozens kidnapped from Islamic school in northern Nigeria (Al Jazeera)

Armed groups carrying out kidnapping for ransom have been blamed for a series of raids on schools and universities in northern Nigeria in recent...

Nigeria – Student kidnappings threaten collapse of Nigerian education system (Brookings)

Adedeji Adeniran and Marco Castradori The Nigerian education system is deep into crises on multiple fronts, including in areas of access and quality of education. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2021/04/19/student-kidnappings-threaten-collapse-of-nigerian-education-system/

Nigeria – COVID’s impacts on the Nigerian extractive sector (Brookings)

Tamara White Earlier this month, the World Bank launched its latest edition of Africa’s Pulse, which explores the trajectories and trends in economic growth (or losses)...

(Nigeria) Collective Action on Corruption in Nigeria. The role of religion (Chatham House)

Leena Koni Hoffmann, Raj Navanit Patel This paper analyses the results of a survey carried out as part of the ongoing Chatham House Africa Programme’s Social Norms...